Category: Health & Fitness

Whether a makeup💄 lover or not, having clean and glowing skin is a woman’s OBSESSION! While the discolouration and hyper-pigmentation are repetitive concerns for women, acne is something that worries the majority!

Acnecan be an outcome of health issues and hormonal imbalances, but one aspect that we are certain most likely to turn a blind eye is what we eat. Someone very truly said, ”you are what you eat, but more than that, your skin is EXACTLY what you eat!”

Acne around the temples particularly is a major concern for girls, especially the students who aren’t allowed to wear makeup in schools are insecure about it.

𝔹𝕌𝕋 𝔻𝕀𝔻 𝕐𝕆𝕌 𝕂ℕ𝕆𝕎, 𝕐𝕆𝕌 ℂ𝔸ℕ 𝕋ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕋 𝕀𝕋 𝕎𝕀𝕋ℍ 𝔸 𝕎𝔸𝕋𝔼ℝ 𝔹𝕆𝕋𝕋𝕃𝔼? 💦

Acne on temples is primarily due to dehydration. This particular area is associated with kidneys, it can also tell that you could be depleting your adrenal glands.

Adrenal glands are very much affected by stressin your life. If you particularly breakout when you are stressed, the answer is quite simple – you have stress acne.

With a bit of lifestyle change and natural food consumption, you can easily treat your skin problems. The following foods can help you stay hydrated and treat your temple acne.

𝐹𝒪𝒪𝒟𝒮 𝒯𝒪 𝐻𝐸𝐿𝒫 𝒴𝒪𝒰 𝒲𝐼𝒯𝐻 𝒜𝒞𝒩𝐸 😋🌿:

Cucumber 🥒

Radishes 🥗

Tomatoes 🍅

Olives 🍽️

Flax Seeds 🌱

Olive Oil 🛢️

𝒫𝐿𝒜𝒩 𝒯𝒪 𝒟𝐸𝒯𝒪𝒳𝐼𝐹𝒴 𝒴𝒪𝒰𝑅 𝐵𝒪𝒟𝒴 💪💧:

You can detoxify your body by consuming 1.5 to 2 litres of water everyday. Observe how your skins is reacting to it, add the vegetables and fruits to help balance and detoxify kidneys.The fruits you should consume are,

𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴 🌱

𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘴 🥜

𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 🍒

𝘈𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘴 🥗

𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 🌿

𝐵𝐼𝒫𝐻𝒜𝒮𝐼𝒞 𝒮𝐿𝐸𝐸𝒫 𝒞𝒴𝒞𝐿𝐸 😴

For a few days, resort to a biphasic sleep routine. This means that you need to sleep at night for at least 6 hours and then take a nap in the noon. This helps to recover your pores and skins from acne.

Pakistan is among the most obese countries in the world – ranked at 9th! The contributing reasons for it and a number of health issues the majority faces is our lifestyle. Hardly watching the nutritional value of what we consume and inactive routine overall is the leading cause of heart diseases, arthritis, diabetes and above all, obesity.

To adopt an actual healthy lifestyle, we need to have a different approach towards the entire process. Rather than seeing it as a one-time effort, should consider adopting a long-term and sustainable routine.

Well, they are! If you quickly eliminate these 5 morning habits only, you will definitely see an obvious difference in your body and energy level.

Want to know what those are? HERE, we go!

1. Missing That Sun Contact ☀

As per the study published in PLOS One, a renowned journal, if you keep your blinds/curtains closed during the morning, you are missing the weight-loss benefits from the sun. Those who take the benefits in the morning have a comparatively lower BMI than those who don’t. The study also revealed that 20-30 minutes contact with the sun is enough to affect an individual’s BMI.

2. Skipping The Weigh-In ⚖

We usually tend to make this mistake and not bother about it until someone verbally says we have gotten rounder. But this habit is disastrous! According to a study published in the International Journal of Obesityafter a year-long research, longer the people wait between two weigh-ins, the more they are likely to gain weight. It also revealed that people with a habit of regularly checking weight are lesser prone to gaining weight. The best time to check weight is in the morning, on an empty stomach for an accurate reading.

3. Skipping The Breakfast 🍳

Breakfast is the single most important meal of your day. According to Kathleen Alleaume, nutrition and exercise scientist, skipping breakfast acts as a gateway to unhealthy eating throughout the day. A balanced breakfast helps curb the craving throughout the day and manages the hunger concentration. In other words, if you eat proper breakfast, you will have lesser urge to eat junk food throughout the day.

4. Not Enough Water 💧 But Too Much Coffee ☕

Kathleen also stresses that having too much coffee/tea in the morning without balancing it out with water can have an unhealthy impact on your waist. Water intake in the morning is particularly imperative because it jumpstarts your metabolism, flushes out toxins and also charges your brain. The body needs water in the morning to ‘catch up’ breaking down on all the extract nutrients after the night’s sleep.

5. Not Making Your Bed 🛏

Sounding rather trivial, the author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, suggests that people who have a habit of making their bed have better willpower and are more determined to keep their life in order and organized. The people who have this habit are 19% more likely to get proper sleep and rest – both factors are directly linked with affecting BMI.

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We all have been at a point in which we have hopelessly stared at the woman in the magazine, desperately gasping to have a body like her. We have spent a few minutes staring at ourselves in the mirror now and then – looking down at ourselves, thinking why can’t have the perfect jawline like that girl on the TV? Why isn’t her skin saggy? Where is the cellulite? Where is the texture, the imperfections?

Well – it is all there in front of your eyes, masked with the filters. As someone quite wisely said

‘Don’t wish to look like that girl in the magazine. Because that girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine’.

Indeed – what meets our eye is the reconstructions, a final product, after it has gone through countless levels of refinement and scrutiny.

Identifying how it is affecting the confidence of the women idealizing them and the increased trend of cosmetic surgeries for attaining that picture-perfect body, many models and influencers started preaching body-positivity.

The campaign was significantly lead by 27 years old Karina Irby from South Wales, who uploaded her photos captioned ‘Instagram vs Reality’ – a comparison of original pictures and the edited glorification. She shared how her picture was tweaked and edited before making to the final screen, raising concerning questions of dynamics of beauty in the industry when it comes to women’ physique. She also suggested the audience to embrace their authentic body and not fall in shackles of insecurities, using the fake Instagram photos as an institution to look up to.

*Disclaimer: Don’t follow the routine without seeking consultation from a professional*

Passion and determination see no boundaries, and this has been made evident by the sensational Mary Kom!

Mary is an Indian Olympic boxer hailing from Manipur. The five gold medalist inspiration has done something that has literally left all the jaws dropped and mouths opened across the world.

Mary lost 2 kgs in 4 hours in pursuit of gold….SAY WHAT!?

She had a very narrow timespan to fit in the 48-kilo category before the general weigh-in, but she was all set and knew exactly how to do it. You must be thinking, how can she do it? And more than that, how can it be done?
Well, Mary shares that she achieved this unreal goal by skipping rope. She took her dose of peaceful sleep at the flight the flight and skipped rope for an hour to achieve it. From her flight landing at 3:30 to her weigh-in at 7:30, Mary gave it her all and she made it happen.

“I did skipping for an hour at a stretch and just like that, I was ready”. – she said in her interview with The Free Press Journal.

Her concerned effort for quick weight loss to avoid getting disqualified from the 13th Silesian Open Boxing Tournament has made the buzz on international media. With this crazy achievement, Mary also managed to bag her third gold of the year!

For those who are unaware of the name, Mary Kom is a boxing sensation, coming from a very humble background in India. Breaking all stereotypes, she chose boxing, what is commonly perceived as a ‘masculine’ profession and fed her four siblings.

Regardless of her age and 3 children, Mary stands strong and is not looking to retire any time soon. The 36 years old athlete has her eye fixated on gold for 2020 Olympics – again!

Blowing candles for 105th birthday as one of the oldest women alive, Brenda Osborne said she is disappointed that the Queen didn’t come to her birthday.

Making the headlines for her elite humor and quality health even at such age, Brenda is a retired war-time nurse who only took one day off due to sickness in her 33 years long career.

Brenda hails from Mansfield, Nottingham and spent 93 years of her life in her childhood home, before moving to a nursing home last year.

She started her professional career as a nurse in 1940 in Victoria Hospital, where she treated wounds of Dunkirk veterans. She was elevated to the position of assistant nurse in 1946 and then a senior nurse in the year 1953.

She now resides in Brookholme Croft Nursing Home in Hasland. The nursing home did an amazing job at throwing her a party, where she toasted her 105 with her loved ones.

On being asked how she maintained such good health and composure, Brenda revealed her secret saying the secret to her long-life is avoiding men. She says that ‘they aren’t worth the hassle’

“I would put my good health down to hard work and avoiding men” – Brenda said.

She further added that one should interact with nature and get some fresh air to keep the health on track. Brenda quite rigidly added that she wouldn’t have been where she is today if she had a husband.

She received a card from Queen wishing her on her glorious 105th birthday, but she was still unhappy saying that she could’ve at least paid her a visit – quite impressed to see the expectations!

“I received my letter from her but I thought an appearance was the least she could do.” – She says.

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If you have struggled with weight at some point or not, there is one thing majority of us have worried about – that double chin!

Seeing a woman secure in her skin, I mean secure in her ‘chin’ is quite a rare sight. This kind of explains the crazy contouring trend and crash water diets that have been going around for a while. However without starving yourself, giving 15 minutes of your time daily can completely transform your face.

How? By face yoga!

Just like exercise meant for all the other parts of the body, there are specific yoga poses meant for your face as well to tone and relax the muscles.

With tightening your skin and giving an overall slimmer look, facial exercises also help to increase blood flow towards the face – assuring minimization of fine lines and promising youthful look. It will also reduce the blotchy and uneven skin, providing the look you have always ways in the most natural and harmless way.

If you have ever searched YouTube on the subject, you would’ve probably come across Parmita Katkar. Bollywood Diva has a series of videos available on her YouTube channel ‘Blush with me-Parmita’. She is known for sharing advanced exercises to tighten skin and giving skin a natural glow, that are even doable for beginners.

Parmita shared the secret to her absolutely chiselled jawline and high cheekbones. Not only her exercises are effective and her knowledge of fitness is commendable, she has a very articulate way of communicating it hence, it is neither tough to comprehend nor hard to follow.
Fitness guru shares six exercises that have benefitted her and are sure to benefit you as well as the people in her comments section also approve of them. Within a week, you will feel your face muscles tighten and that V-shape forming – TRIED AND TESTED!

Interested to know how to do it? Here is an easy guide on how to achieve your dream facial structure:

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Pakistan is the 9th most obese country in the world. With problems like cardiac-diseases, arthritis, blood pressure and diabetes catching every second individual, it should be our red alert to care about ourselves and kick-start the journey to a healthy lifestyle – for the sake ourselves and our loved ones. Read More